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No. If they lose the contract, your admin team will work at finding you a new project. You will be on the bench until you’re deployed.
^ can confirm
Chief
I would think they are trying to signal that your hire is contingent on contract award, perhaps? Once you’re hired at BAH, your employment is much less tied to one specific contract though.
No cause for concern if they're interviewing you for a position on an existing contract. Should they lose that client, you can sit on the bench for quite a while in between contracts. If they're bidding on a new contract, you may want to ask whether your position is contingent on a win.
It’s common in consulting. Nothing to worry about.
Chief
All that language means is that you're a funded hire and would start working on that contract right away, vs being a capability hire who would start on the bench.
Your admin team would work to get you staffed on another project after the current contract ends, and I'd there's a gap between the two contracts, you'd spend time on the bench. If you're unable to line up another project after this first one, you'd eventually get let go vs riding the bench, but going to the bench between projects is standard in consulting.
This is actually a good thing cause it means you’ll be staffed to a project as soon as you’re hired and you won’t have to try and find one yourself
Yes. As a new hire and benchwarmer, can confirm that it’s kind of a sucky situation be to be in.